In some email I received from Greywolf, sie wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
> # Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:45:44 +0200 (MET DST)
> # From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
> # To: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> # Cc: joel.lindholm@telia.com
> # Subject: Proposal: In-kernel loader + symbol table handler.
> # 
> # 
> # Background:
> # The current kernel module system is quite bad. It lacks many of the 
> # features that are needed to do something useful with it.
> # 
> # Vision:
> # To add full functionality that makes it possible to have a complete
> # dynamic linked kernel. How this will work and its implications will be
> # described in a special paper.
> 
> Will this dynamic loading perform better than the excuse that Solamis
> uses (especially on the SPARC)?

IMHO, the Solaris one is actually quite good.  The only problem I have
with it is the number of miscellaneous files in /etc required to boot.

Darren